United States First Circuit

In a suit for early retirement benefits, summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs-former employees is reversed where defendant-employer properly asserts that the 1995 Restatement to its pension plan constitutes the governing plan document in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/10/2005
• Published 03/10/2005

Judges

• JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert S. Frank, Jr., with whom Michelle L. Dineen Jerrett, Choate, Hall & Stewart, and Stephen H. Goldberg, Kristin A. Shepard, Jorden Burt LLP, were on brief, for defendant-appellant/cross appellee., Jeffrey B. Renton, with whom Robert J. Gilbert, Gilbert & Renton LLC, was on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees/cross-appellants.